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• HHS to Take Charge of Bioterror and Epidemic Response
  Distributed to ACP Orange County Board, ACP Corporate board and ACP Chapter Presidents
  The final days of any congress tend to be lackluster affairs, but this year, despite all the acrimony engendered by the midterm elections, members did manage to pass the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act. In addition to providing $824 million to fund public health preparedness, create an advanced biomedical research agency under HHS, and develop a nationwide, near-real-time disease detection network, the bill also effects a major organizational change in the way emergencies are managed at the federal level.
   

• Business Continuity Guideline
  by ASIS International
  A Practical Approach for Emergency Preparedness, Crisis Management, and Disaster Recovery
   

• Continuity Planning Dilemmas: Fatalism Versus Precaution
  by Mark Jablonowski
  The bigger the risk, the harder it is to plan to deal with it. BCP is most difficult for hazards that can cause effects that are terminal, irreversible, and present the greatest peril to us-as individuals, corporations, communities, or society at large. The very size and potential of these major risks is compelling, yet we remain strangely powerless when actually faced with them.
   

• The Intersection of BCM and ERM
  by Brian Zawada
  As Business Continuity Management (BCM) programs continue to evolve and mature, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) processes are just beginning to take hold.  The promise of competitive advantage through effective risk management has captured the attention of executive managers worldwide.  And with crises capturing headlines everyday, more and more executive managers are developing or maturing their business continuity programs.  Can BCM jumpstart ERM?  Why have both?  Brian Zawada explores the drivers for both BCM and ERM, as well as how the two intersect and compliment one another.